The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Games For Change

Alternative Reality Games and other new media ventures that included a social impact message really hit home this year.  There is tremendous opportunity within this field to make something beautiful that means something.

World Without Oil, debuting last year in 2007, set a high standard and had participants from all over the globe.

ITVS helped fund WOW as they did Fatworld.

FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. The game’s goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies, and regulations. Existing approaches to nutrition advocacy fail to communicate the aggregate effect of everyday health practices

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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